Charlie Byrd
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Biography
[Edit]Tasteful, low-key, and ingratiatingly melodic, Charlie Byrd had two notable accomplishments to his credit — applying acoustic classical guitar techniques to jazz and popular music and helping to introduce Brazilian music to mass North American audiences. Born into a musical family, Byrd experienced his first brush with greatness while a teenager in France during World War II, playing with his idol Django Reinhardt. After some postwar gigs with Sol Yaged, Joe Marsala and Freddie Slack, Byrd temporarily abandoned jazz to study classical guitar with Sophocles Papas in 1950 and Andrés Segovia in 1954. However he re-emerged later in the decade gigging around the Washington D.C. area in jazz settings, often splitting his sets into distinct jazz and classical segments. He started recording for Savoy as a leader in 1957, and also recorded with the Woody Herman Band in 1958-59. A tour of South America under the aegis of the U.S. State Department in 1961, proved to be a revelation, for it was in Brazil that Byrd discovered the emerging bossa nova movement. Once back in D.C., he played some bossa nova tapes to Stan Getz, who then convinced Verve's Creed Taylor to record an album of Brazilian music with himself and Byrd. That album, Jazz Samba, became a pop hit in 1962 on the strength of the single "Desafinado" and launched the bossa nova wave in North America. Thanks to the bossa nova, several albums for Riverside followed, including the defining Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros, and he was able to land a major contract with Columbia, though the records from that association often consisted of watered-down easy listening pop. In 1973, he formed the group Great Guitars with Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel and also that year, wrote an instruction manual for the guitar that has become widely used. From 1974 onward, Byrd recorded for the Concord Jazz label in a variety of settings, including sessions with Laurindo Almeida and Bud Shank. He died December 2, 1999 after a long bout with cancer. ~ Richard S. Ginell, Rovi
Title: Great Chefs, Great Music
Artist: Charlie Byrd, The Charlie Byrd Ensemble
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Smooth Jazz
Title: Christmas Carols for Solo Guitar
Artist: Charlie Byrd
Genre: Jazz, Latin, Traditional Pop Music, Bop
Title: Bamba Samba Bossa Nova [Digital 45]
Artist: Charlie Byrd
Genre: Jazz, Rock, World Music, Latin
Title: Bamba Samba Bossa Nova (Digitally Remastered)
Artist: Charlie Byrd
Genre: Jazz, World Music, Latin
Collections
Title: Bossa Nova Guitar
Genre: Bossanova
Title: Lovely Jazz Bossa Nova (CD1)
Title: Lovely Jazz Bossa Nova (CD2)
Title: Jazz Guitar
Genre: Jazz
Title: Cool Jazz Vol. 4 (CD2)
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Title: Bossa Nova Millennium 2001
Title: Best Of Bossa Nova 2014
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz At Weeks End
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Moods - Brazilian Nights
Genre: Jazz
Title: Copacabana Lounge Night
Title: Samba Jazz Gems
Genre: Jazz, Samba, World Music, Bossanova
Title: Bossa Nova U. S. A
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Bossanova
Title: Big Latin (CD1)
Genre: World Music, Latin
Title: Europe 1 Summer Jazz
Title: Ich Mag Keinen Jazz, Aber Das Gefallt Mir Vol. 3
Genre: Jazz
Title: Best Of Jazz By Jazz Radio (CD1)
Genre: Soul, Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Title: 100 Jazz Classics & Greatest Jazz Hits (CD1)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Kings Of Jazz, Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Guitar: From The Famous Savoy Jazz Archives (CD1)
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Real... Bossa Nova
Title: Cool Jazz Bossa Hits
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Bossanova
Title: Latin Extra Sensation (CD1)
Genre: Salsa
Title: Latin Extra Sensation (CD2)
Genre: Salsa
Title: La Mejor Experiencia De Jazz Latino
Genre: Jazz
Title: Apero - La Bande Son Jazzy Ideale
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Title: Pure Latin Jazz 2019
Title: Enjoy Great Jazz, Vol. 06
Genre: Jazz
Title: Legends Play Jobim 2019
Title: Bossa Nova Color 2020
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Bossanova
Title: Oldies In Jazz, Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: Epiphany Smooth Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Favourite Tracks Vol. 1 (All Tracks Remastered)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Noël Jazz Chill / Noel Jazz Chill
Genre: Jazz, Traditional Pop Music
Featuring albums
Title: The Best of Stan Getz (20th Century Masters the Millennium Collection)
Artist: Stan Getz
Genre: Jazz, World Music
Title: Woody Allen - Music from His Movies, Vol. 5
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Mojo Jazz Present Family Affair (Bossa Nova Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Latin
Title: The Girl From Ipanema: The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook
Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim
Genre: Jazz, Samba, World Music, Latin, Bossanova